zapłakać się

English translation: weep one's heart out

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Polish term or phrase:zapłakać się
English translation:weep one's heart out

07:50 Dec 3, 2018
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Polish to English translations [PRO]
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Polish term or phrase: zapłakać się
Mój pies został ze mną na szczęście, inaczej bym się chyba zapłakała.

Czy jest jakiś idiom, oddający ten ton?
dariaemma
Poland
Local time: 12:41
weep one's heart out
Explanation:
Proponuję I would weep my heart out. Ewentualnie można pokusić się o I would wail with grief, jednak osobiście wolę pierwszy wariant.

zapłakiwać się
ipf.
keep crying/weeping, lament, abandon oneself to tears, pipe one's eyes, weep one's heart out; zapłakiwać się z żalu wail with grief.

The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary
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Mariusz Jagodziński
Poland
Local time: 12:41
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Właśnie tego idiomu szukałam! Dziękuję!
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Summary of answers provided
5weep one's heart out
Mariusz Jagodziński
5I would melt into tears/cry like a baby/turn into a fountain of tears
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
4Cry one’s eyes out
Joanna Carroll
3sob (eyes/life) away, bawl (eyes/life) away, cry heart out
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weep one's heart out


Explanation:
Proponuję I would weep my heart out. Ewentualnie można pokusić się o I would wail with grief, jednak osobiście wolę pierwszy wariant.

zapłakiwać się
ipf.
keep crying/weeping, lament, abandon oneself to tears, pipe one's eyes, weep one's heart out; zapłakiwać się z żalu wail with grief.

The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary



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Mariusz Jagodziński
Poland
Local time: 12:41
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Właśnie tego idiomu szukałam! Dziękuję!
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Cry one’s eyes out


Explanation:
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Joanna Carroll
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:41
Native speaker of: Polish
PRO pts in category: 28
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sob (eyes/life) away, bawl (eyes/life) away, cry heart out


Explanation:
He is getting thin; he looks tired, so tired, particularly when he is asleep, that I feel as if I could fling myself on his breast and sob my life away for sheer sadness.

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I wanted to cry I wanted to bawl my life away, but no more tears would come out. I had cried them all away.

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... find a private spot, a bathroom stall somewhere, where I can bawl my heart out.

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geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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I would melt into tears/cry like a baby/turn into a fountain of tears


Explanation:
When I cracked up my new Corvette, I cried like a baby.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cry_like_a_baby

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 06:41
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 96
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